There are just three-and-a-half months left to spend your old £10 notes after the Bank of England revealed the date for when it will cease to be legal tender.

The plastic tenner was introduced into circulation on September 14 and is the first Bank of England note with a tactile feature to help blind and partially sighted users.

It also features a picture of author Jane Austen – the only woman apart from the Queen to feature on a bank note.

The new polymer £10 note featuring a portrait of Jane Austen (Image: PA)

According to Mirror Online, the Bank of England has announced that the old £10 paper notes will have to be spent by March 1, 2018, although notes will be able to be exchanged at the Bank after this date.

Like the £5 note already in circulation featuring Sir Winston Churchill, the new £10 banknote is made from polymer, which is more durable and expected to last five years in total.

Around 55% of the £10 notes in circulation are made from polymer, while 359 million are paper.

The transition to polymer has sparked controversy after the Bank confirmed that an "extremely small amount" of tallow - or animal fat - was used to produce polymer pellets, which were part of the production process for creating the notes.